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Evil Spirits
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Trephining- Tribal doctors get rid of the evil spirits
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Digitalis- Heart medicine
Quinine- Fever, muscle spasms, and prevents malaria
Belladonna and atropine- Relive muscle spasms
Morphine- Treating serve pain -
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They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priests acted as physicians. They called upon the gods to heal them.
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First to use primitive acupuncture therapy -
First to discover diseases and that they are natural and not spiritual. Religious customs did not allow dissection to occur. Hippocrates is the father of medicine. -
Brought clean water into the city’s using aqueducts. First to organize medical care. First people to keep a room for sick people. -
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They believed that death was in Gods hands.
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The primary treatment was prayer
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Bubonic plague, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Syphilis, Tuberculosis killed millions of people.
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The building of universities and medical schools for research. Acceptance of dissection for study. The development of the printing press allowing greater access to knowledge from research. -
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
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Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
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Was able to understand the circulation of blood and the pumping heart.
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Invented the microscope
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Early pharmacies started -
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Discovered bifocals and that colds can be passed from person to person -
Required a new way of teaching, when a patient died they dissected the body and observed the disease process. .
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Discovered the element oxygen
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Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
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Invented the stethoscope
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Founder of modern nursing
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Identified the cause of childbed fever
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Father of microbiology, discovered tiny microorganisms
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Some diseases are caused my microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope
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Became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery.
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Developed asepsis
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Discovered many disease-causing organisms
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms
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Discovered x-ray
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Allowed doctors to preform surgery and the patient would not feel a thing -
Found penicillin killed live-threatening bacteria
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Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds
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Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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Used live polio virus vaccine. Helps immunize babies
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Preformed the first successful heart transplant
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Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
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Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
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- Gene Sequencing
- Telehealth and mobile heath
- 3D printing of body parts
- Controlling Heart Disease
- Therapy in Cancer Treatment